Tag: Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation (BCIC)

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Expanding Frontiers, a Brownsville technology nonprofit, announced that its Acceleration client, Permittivity, LLC, has won the grand prize in the global challenge “Imperfection Detection: Detect Me If You Can,” organized by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in collaboration with the Army Corps of Engineers through HeroX, a global crowdsourcing platform.

A collaboration between the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment (TEES) just got a boost from the U.S. Small Business Administration in the form of a $300,000 grant.

The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation has announced the new entrepreneurs who will pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges and compete for up to $40,000 in seed money during a Startup Texas “Demo Day” scheduled for Aug. 10 at the eBridge Center for Business and Commercialization.

With Veterans Memorial Early College High School cheerleaders on hand to punctuate the excitement, the city of Brownsville and Texas Amateur Athletic Federal held a press conference Wednesday in the school library to welcome TAAF’s Summer Games of Texas.

Brownsville’s eBridge Center for Business and Commercialization, which has a grand opening scheduled for March 9, is soliciting applications for a “start-up boot camp” to be held at the center March 31 to April 2 in partnership with Geekdom, a San Antonio-based incubator for tech start-up companies.

The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation was recognized for its work downtown during the International Economic Development Council’s annual conference in Oklahoma City this week.

The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation announced the selection of Cori Peña as its new president and CEO.

A new firm that plans to grind up old tires into marketable rubber crumbs is the winner of the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation’s 2022 Startup Texas Pitch Summit, beating out eight other finalists in the process.

The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation has announced the finalists for its third annual Startup Texas Pitch Summit, scheduled to take place June 16.